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Quotes from Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States — James C. Scott

1936–2024 United States

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Once the basic assumption of the superiority and attraction of fixed-field farming over all previous forms of subsistence is questioned, it becomes clear that this assumption itself rests on a deeper and more embedded assumption that is virtually never questioned. And that assumption is that sedentary life itself is superior to and more attractive than mobile forms of existence.

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James C. Scott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.